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Hey there, Force fans! After wildly successful Kickstarter campaigns in 2014and2015, the Nintendo Force made the leap here to Patreon in 2016! This is the place where fans have the chance to sign up and get new, Nintendo-focused magazines coming to your mailbox (or email inbox). It's time to join the Force of Nintendo fans! Subscribe to NF Magazine by becoming a patron on this page!

Here's some background info for you. Back in December 2012, Nintendo Power Magazine shipped its final issue. That got a lot of long-time Nintendo fans upset, as NP had been the one consistent and reliable print magazine covering Nintendo video games ever since the '80s. Some of us had been subscribers for over two decades, and there were still tens of thousands of active subscribers getting new issues delivered in the mail up until that final issue.

Well, we didn't want to see that legacy die. So we assembled a dream team of the most well-known Nintendo journalists from around the world and launched a new magazine four years ago! The first issue went on sale on January 11, 2013, exactly one month after Nintendo Power ended.

NF Magazine is not Nintendo Power, but we're carrying its torch forward into the future by paying homage to the best parts of NP's past while forging a new identity with an all-new team. So join the Force! Subscribe to NF Magazine by becoming a patron here on Patreon, and get all-new Nintendo magazines coming to your mailbox, your email inbox or directly to your digital reading device of choice!

(Note for adults: Being an adult stinks when it comes to checking your mail. Nothing but bills, ads and piles of unsolicited coupons you'll never use in there. But for just a few bucks invested here, checking your mailbox can become an exciting, nostalgic experience once again! NF isn't just a magazine – it's an adult life morale booster.)

This page isn't like other Patreon pages! Most Patreon creators charge your credit card every month. We don't do that. Here, you'll only see a charge pop up after we release a new issue – which happens every two months. We're bi-monthly. Six new issues per year, if you want to think of it that way! So become an NF patron with confidence!

Yes, it's true! As Arlo himself explains in the opening moments of the video posted just below, NF Magazine is proud to now have YouTube's bluest, fuzziest Nintendo-addicted content creator as a member of our team! Every new issue of NF (beginning with Issue #30) features a fresh installment of "Arlo's Headcanon" – a totally wild, totally off-the-wall and totally Arlo-ish fan fiction tale starring Nintendo's crazy cast of characters. It's Arlo-made content you can only get right here, so become a patron on this page and don't miss a single installment!

And if you haven't already done so, you should also become a patron of Arlo's own Patreon page at Patreon.com/ArloStuff. Huzzah!

Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove and the indie explosion! For our 37th NF issue, we'll kick off our seventh year with a cool callback to the start of our second. Shovel Knight was the game we featured on the cover of NF #7, and now half a decade later Yacht Club Games is still working to finish up the same game! We'll interview them to find out what it's been like to keep digging deeper into the same adventure for so long, have exclusive info on the finalized Treasure Trove release that includes the new King Knight campaign called Shovel Knight: King of Cards and the multiplayer battle game Shovel Knight: Showdown, chronicle the Blue Burrower's five years of indie cameos and much, much more!

If you want to get on the mailing list for this issue, you need to click that "Become a Patron" button above and join our Force of Nintendo fans here before Sunday, December 16 at 10:00 p.m. Eastern time. That's when we'll cut it off!

For the poster, we're going with a throwback. We didn't include posters with NF issues at the beginning of our run – the first one we did was a Mario Kart 8 poster that shipped with Issue #8. That means that NF #7, the one with Shovel Knight on the cover, just missed having a wall poster of its own! So, now, we're going to print the poster that we would have offered five years ago. It's the original promo art of Shovel Knight from 2014!

And on the reverse side, another throwback in a way – it's 2011's New Super Mario Bros. U, but in its new 2019 Deluxe edition for the Nintendo Switch! You've been wanting to hang some art of Peachette and the Super Crown on your wall, haven't you? (Bonus: Everyone's favorite new Smash fighter, Piranha Plant!)

Since Masahiro Sakurai's blowing expectations out of the water with the massive size of the playable cast of the upcoming Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, we just had to match his excessive energy and expand NF as well! NF Magazine's "Issue #36: Everyone is Here! – November/December 2018" is the biggest edition we've published in our six-year history, weighing in at a full 100 pages (that's 16 more than normal). We needed the extra interior space to be able to profile all of the fighters coming to the new Smash!

The cut-off date for this issue has come and gone, as you needed to be signed up before Sunday, October 21, 2018 at 10:00 p.m. Eastern to make it on the first mailing list. If you signed up after that, fear not! Copies of this issue are now on sale through the website store at NFMagazine.com. Grab a copy there!

Print copies of this edition also ship with a mega-sized wall poster (matching the doubled dimensions of the Mega Man 11 poster recently included with Issue #34). Again, we need more space to cram in all these characters, so you all will just have to deal with all the extra content at no additional cost!

On one side of the wall poster, a giant-sized version of the official box art image for the game. Then, on the reverse, every playable character revealed through the end of October 2018! (Note: Because there more playable characters added to Ultimate later on, a future NF issue will include an "extension" poster that will connect to the bottom of this one to add on all the remaining unrevealed base roster fighters plus any DLC additions, too!)

You were expecting something else? Too bad! WALUIGI TIME!

Though we first started work on NF #35 with a Pokémon theme in mind, we shifted gears by popular demand – meaning the spotlight for our 35th edition shined instead on the one, the only, Waluigi! It's a break from NF tradition for sure, as we almost always focus our cover art and content in on an upcoming game. This time, though, it's the character of Waluigi who inspired us, coming off of an E3 that saw a huge groundswell of support rise up in his favor after he was revealed to once again be appearing as *only* an Assist Trophy in the next Super Smash Bros. sequel.

Waluigi's first-ever appearance came in Mario Tennis on the N64, which turned 18 years old in North America just days after we wrapped this edition. That means Waluigi is an adult! We looked back across his first 18 years in a lengthy retrospective and tried to pinpoint the time when Waluigi transcended his origins as a roster filler in a sports game and became one of the most loved characters in the Mario franchise. Or any franchise, for that matter!

The cut-off date for this issue has come and gone, as you needed to be signed up before Sunday, August 19, 2018 at 10:00 p.m. Eastern to make it on the first mailing list. If you signed up after that, WAAAAAHHHrry not! Copies of this issue are now on sale through the website store at NFMagazine.com. Grab a copy there!

For those of you who don't care for Waluigi very much: one side of the included wall poster features the official art for Super Mario Party on Nintendo Switch, in which Waluigi is shoved back into his normal position, far in the background with the other C-Tier characters. (Though, even more insultingly, the two C-Tier characters on either side of him are both playable in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. While he is not.)

And then here's the gloriously insane "Way Too Many Waluigis" side of the Issue #35 wall poster! It will bless and/or curse your wall (depending on your personal perspective).

The full history of Classic Mega Man is explored as well, with an in-depth feature examining each past game and our reviews of their Switch re-releases through Mega Man Legacy Collection 1 & 2. Both Mega Man X Legacy Collections come into our crosshairs as well, we've got interviews with both Mega Man fan community icon Protodude and Takuya Aizu, the President and CEO of Inti Creates who actually brought Mega Man back to life once before, and much more! We hope you'll enjoy every Blue Bombin' bit of it!

The cut-off date for this issue has come and gone, as you needed to be signed up before Saturday, June 23, 2018 at 11:59 p.m. Eastern to make it on the first mailing list. If you signed up after that, never fear! Copies of this issue are now on sale through the website store at NFMagazine.com. Grab a copy there!

And here's a preview of one side of the wall poster, which is double the normal size! Artist extraordinaire Thor Thorvaldson (who specializes in crowd scenes) spent months preparing this massive Mega Man battle scene featuring every Classic series Robot Master. Have a look at it below, and head over to NFMagazine.com if you want a copy for yourself!

And, on the reverse side of Thor's original art, an official art option for those of you who'd rather rock Capcom's own take on Rockman. Again, this poster will be mega-sized to nearly double the normal dimensions! (That's 32 inches by 20.5 inches, for those who want the precise numbers.)

Here are the members of the Nintendo Force! No matter what corner of the Nintendo fandom you call home, chances are good you're familiar with one or more of the faces or names seen here.

Beyond the team members pictured above, several more have helped make NF Magazine a reality – especially all of our subscribers!

Becoming a patron through this Patreon page is the way to subscribe and receive future issues of NF Magazine! If you're just now finding out about the Nintendo Force and want to get caught up on some of what you've missed over the past few years, our previous issues are available for sale through the website store at NFMagazine.com. Keep an eye out for sales and bundle deals there from time to time!

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Pledge $0.99 or more per issue

THE SHOW OF SUPPORTThanks for helping to keep the legacy of Nintendo magazines alive! At this level, you'll get access to our patron-exclusive posts here on Patreon. [All higher tiers will also include access to the posts here!]

Pledge $5.99 or more per issue

THE PRINT + DIGITAL COMBO SUBSCRIPTION: UNITED STATESYou'll get both a physical copy of each new issue shipped straight to your mailbox (with a double-sided poster included!), and you'll also get the digital editions of each new release. [United States addresses only at this level.]

Pledge $6.99 or more per issue

THE PRINT + DIGITAL COMBO SUBSCRIPTION: CANADAYou'll get both a physical copy of each new issue shipped straight to your mailbox (with a double-sided poster included!), and you'll also get the digital editions of each new release. [Canadian addresses only at this level.]

Pledge $8.99 or more per issue

THE DOUBLE PRINT + DIGITAL COMBO SUBSCRIPTION: UNITED STATESYou'll get two physical copies of each new issue shipped straight to your mailbox (both with a double-sided poster included, so you won't have to choose between which side to display!), and you'll also get the digital editions of each new release. [United States addresses only at this level.]

Pledge $9.99 or more per issue

THE DOUBLE PRINT + DIGITAL COMBO SUBSCRIPTION: CANADAYou'll get two physical copies of each new issue shipped straight to your mailbox (both with a double-sided poster included, so you won't have to choose between which side to display!), and you'll also get the digital editions of each new release. [Canadian addresses only at this level.]

Pledge $11.99 or more per issue

THE PRINT + DIGITAL COMBO SUBSCRIPTION: INTERNATIONALYou'll get both a physical copy of each new issue shipped straight to your mailbox (with a double-sided poster included!), and you'll also get the digital editions of each new release. [This level's for addresses outside the United States and Canada.]

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Our first collaboration with Limited Run Games was a success! We were able to include a limited edition trading card alongside an exclusive Switch game reveal in NF #33, and we'll do it again in the future with continued support from you! Hitting this goal will help us cover the added costs of inserting future LRG trading cards into the plastic shipping bags alongside our usual magazines and wall posters (and occasional papercraft models).

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Hey there, Force fans! After wildly successful Kickstarter campaigns in 2014and2015, the Nintendo Force made the leap here to Patreon in 2016! This is the place where fans have the chance to sign up and get new, Nintendo-focused magazines coming to your mailbox (or email inbox). It's time to join the Force of Nintendo fans! Subscribe to NF Magazine by becoming a patron on this page!

Here's some background info for you. Back in December 2012, Nintendo Power Magazine shipped its final issue. That got a lot of long-time Nintendo fans upset, as NP had been the one consistent and reliable print magazine covering Nintendo video games ever since the '80s. Some of us had been subscribers for over two decades, and there were still tens of thousands of active subscribers getting new issues delivered in the mail up until that final issue.

Well, we didn't want to see that legacy die. So we assembled a dream team of the most well-known Nintendo journalists from around the world and launched a new magazine four years ago! The first issue went on sale on January 11, 2013, exactly one month after Nintendo Power ended.

NF Magazine is not Nintendo Power, but we're carrying its torch forward into the future by paying homage to the best parts of NP's past while forging a new identity with an all-new team. So join the Force! Subscribe to NF Magazine by becoming a patron here on Patreon, and get all-new Nintendo magazines coming to your mailbox, your email inbox or directly to your digital reading device of choice!

(Note for adults: Being an adult stinks when it comes to checking your mail. Nothing but bills, ads and piles of unsolicited coupons you'll never use in there. But for just a few bucks invested here, checking your mailbox can become an exciting, nostalgic experience once again! NF isn't just a magazine – it's an adult life morale booster.)

This page isn't like other Patreon pages! Most Patreon creators charge your credit card every month. We don't do that. Here, you'll only see a charge pop up after we release a new issue – which happens every two months. We're bi-monthly. Six new issues per year, if you want to think of it that way! So become an NF patron with confidence!

Yes, it's true! As Arlo himself explains in the opening moments of the video posted just below, NF Magazine is proud to now have YouTube's bluest, fuzziest Nintendo-addicted content creator as a member of our team! Every new issue of NF (beginning with Issue #30) features a fresh installment of "Arlo's Headcanon" – a totally wild, totally off-the-wall and totally Arlo-ish fan fiction tale starring Nintendo's crazy cast of characters. It's Arlo-made content you can only get right here, so become a patron on this page and don't miss a single installment!

And if you haven't already done so, you should also become a patron of Arlo's own Patreon page at Patreon.com/ArloStuff. Huzzah!

Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove and the indie explosion! For our 37th NF issue, we'll kick off our seventh year with a cool callback to the start of our second. Shovel Knight was the game we featured on the cover of NF #7, and now half a decade later Yacht Club Games is still working to finish up the same game! We'll interview them to find out what it's been like to keep digging deeper into the same adventure for so long, have exclusive info on the finalized Treasure Trove release that includes the new King Knight campaign called Shovel Knight: King of Cards and the multiplayer battle game Shovel Knight: Showdown, chronicle the Blue Burrower's five years of indie cameos and much, much more!

If you want to get on the mailing list for this issue, you need to click that "Become a Patron" button above and join our Force of Nintendo fans here before Sunday, December 16 at 10:00 p.m. Eastern time. That's when we'll cut it off!

For the poster, we're going with a throwback. We didn't include posters with NF issues at the beginning of our run – the first one we did was a Mario Kart 8 poster that shipped with Issue #8. That means that NF #7, the one with Shovel Knight on the cover, just missed having a wall poster of its own! So, now, we're going to print the poster that we would have offered five years ago. It's the original promo art of Shovel Knight from 2014!

And on the reverse side, another throwback in a way – it's 2011's New Super Mario Bros. U, but in its new 2019 Deluxe edition for the Nintendo Switch! You've been wanting to hang some art of Peachette and the Super Crown on your wall, haven't you? (Bonus: Everyone's favorite new Smash fighter, Piranha Plant!)

Since Masahiro Sakurai's blowing expectations out of the water with the massive size of the playable cast of the upcoming Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, we just had to match his excessive energy and expand NF as well! NF Magazine's "Issue #36: Everyone is Here! – November/December 2018" is the biggest edition we've published in our six-year history, weighing in at a full 100 pages (that's 16 more than normal). We needed the extra interior space to be able to profile all of the fighters coming to the new Smash!

The cut-off date for this issue has come and gone, as you needed to be signed up before Sunday, October 21, 2018 at 10:00 p.m. Eastern to make it on the first mailing list. If you signed up after that, fear not! Copies of this issue are now on sale through the website store at NFMagazine.com. Grab a copy there!

Print copies of this edition also ship with a mega-sized wall poster (matching the doubled dimensions of the Mega Man 11 poster recently included with Issue #34). Again, we need more space to cram in all these characters, so you all will just have to deal with all the extra content at no additional cost!

On one side of the wall poster, a giant-sized version of the official box art image for the game. Then, on the reverse, every playable character revealed through the end of October 2018! (Note: Because there more playable characters added to Ultimate later on, a future NF issue will include an "extension" poster that will connect to the bottom of this one to add on all the remaining unrevealed base roster fighters plus any DLC additions, too!)

You were expecting something else? Too bad! WALUIGI TIME!

Though we first started work on NF #35 with a Pokémon theme in mind, we shifted gears by popular demand – meaning the spotlight for our 35th edition shined instead on the one, the only, Waluigi! It's a break from NF tradition for sure, as we almost always focus our cover art and content in on an upcoming game. This time, though, it's the character of Waluigi who inspired us, coming off of an E3 that saw a huge groundswell of support rise up in his favor after he was revealed to once again be appearing as *only* an Assist Trophy in the next Super Smash Bros. sequel.

Waluigi's first-ever appearance came in Mario Tennis on the N64, which turned 18 years old in North America just days after we wrapped this edition. That means Waluigi is an adult! We looked back across his first 18 years in a lengthy retrospective and tried to pinpoint the time when Waluigi transcended his origins as a roster filler in a sports game and became one of the most loved characters in the Mario franchise. Or any franchise, for that matter!

The cut-off date for this issue has come and gone, as you needed to be signed up before Sunday, August 19, 2018 at 10:00 p.m. Eastern to make it on the first mailing list. If you signed up after that, WAAAAAHHHrry not! Copies of this issue are now on sale through the website store at NFMagazine.com. Grab a copy there!

For those of you who don't care for Waluigi very much: one side of the included wall poster features the official art for Super Mario Party on Nintendo Switch, in which Waluigi is shoved back into his normal position, far in the background with the other C-Tier characters. (Though, even more insultingly, the two C-Tier characters on either side of him are both playable in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. While he is not.)

And then here's the gloriously insane "Way Too Many Waluigis" side of the Issue #35 wall poster! It will bless and/or curse your wall (depending on your personal perspective).

The full history of Classic Mega Man is explored as well, with an in-depth feature examining each past game and our reviews of their Switch re-releases through Mega Man Legacy Collection 1 & 2. Both Mega Man X Legacy Collections come into our crosshairs as well, we've got interviews with both Mega Man fan community icon Protodude and Takuya Aizu, the President and CEO of Inti Creates who actually brought Mega Man back to life once before, and much more! We hope you'll enjoy every Blue Bombin' bit of it!

The cut-off date for this issue has come and gone, as you needed to be signed up before Saturday, June 23, 2018 at 11:59 p.m. Eastern to make it on the first mailing list. If you signed up after that, never fear! Copies of this issue are now on sale through the website store at NFMagazine.com. Grab a copy there!

And here's a preview of one side of the wall poster, which is double the normal size! Artist extraordinaire Thor Thorvaldson (who specializes in crowd scenes) spent months preparing this massive Mega Man battle scene featuring every Classic series Robot Master. Have a look at it below, and head over to NFMagazine.com if you want a copy for yourself!

And, on the reverse side of Thor's original art, an official art option for those of you who'd rather rock Capcom's own take on Rockman. Again, this poster will be mega-sized to nearly double the normal dimensions! (That's 32 inches by 20.5 inches, for those who want the precise numbers.)

Here are the members of the Nintendo Force! No matter what corner of the Nintendo fandom you call home, chances are good you're familiar with one or more of the faces or names seen here.

Beyond the team members pictured above, several more have helped make NF Magazine a reality – especially all of our subscribers!

Becoming a patron through this Patreon page is the way to subscribe and receive future issues of NF Magazine! If you're just now finding out about the Nintendo Force and want to get caught up on some of what you've missed over the past few years, our previous issues are available for sale through the website store at NFMagazine.com. Keep an eye out for sales and bundle deals there from time to time!

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THE SHOW OF SUPPORTThanks for helping to keep the legacy of Nintendo magazines alive! At this level, you'll get access to our patron-exclusive posts here on Patreon. [All higher tiers will also include access to the posts here!]

Pledge $5.99 or more per issue

THE PRINT + DIGITAL COMBO SUBSCRIPTION: UNITED STATESYou'll get both a physical copy of each new issue shipped straight to your mailbox (with a double-sided poster included!), and you'll also get the digital editions of each new release. [United States addresses only at this level.]

Pledge $6.99 or more per issue

THE PRINT + DIGITAL COMBO SUBSCRIPTION: CANADAYou'll get both a physical copy of each new issue shipped straight to your mailbox (with a double-sided poster included!), and you'll also get the digital editions of each new release. [Canadian addresses only at this level.]

Pledge $8.99 or more per issue

THE DOUBLE PRINT + DIGITAL COMBO SUBSCRIPTION: UNITED STATESYou'll get two physical copies of each new issue shipped straight to your mailbox (both with a double-sided poster included, so you won't have to choose between which side to display!), and you'll also get the digital editions of each new release. [United States addresses only at this level.]

Pledge $9.99 or more per issue

THE DOUBLE PRINT + DIGITAL COMBO SUBSCRIPTION: CANADAYou'll get two physical copies of each new issue shipped straight to your mailbox (both with a double-sided poster included, so you won't have to choose between which side to display!), and you'll also get the digital editions of each new release. [Canadian addresses only at this level.]

Pledge $11.99 or more per issue

THE PRINT + DIGITAL COMBO SUBSCRIPTION: INTERNATIONALYou'll get both a physical copy of each new issue shipped straight to your mailbox (with a double-sided poster included!), and you'll also get the digital editions of each new release. [This level's for addresses outside the United States and Canada.]